Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Jan 30, 1959: "Pupils of the Atomic Age - Some school systems have outlawed report cards because parents could not understand the grading system."




January 30, 1973: KISS played their first concert at the Popcorn Club (renamed Coventry shortly afterward) in Queens, New York. The band performed two sets for a crowd of fewer than ten people. Gene Simmons, the band's bassist, cold-called the club and convinced them to hire the group for a three-night stand. The band was paid $50 for the performance. KISS used fake Marshall amplifiers with hollow cabinets to make the music seem louder.




Found at the Ford Library: One of the invoices for the unaired 1976 "Feeling Good" campaign ad that features President Ford in an open limo in Dallas.


Late in his 1976 campaign against Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford's media team produced a 5-minute commercial that shows Ford (who had survived two near-miss assassination attempts) giving a speech during which a cherry bomb goes off. The President clearly presumes it is an assassin firing, and flinches. In the following scenes, we see Ford parading through Dallas in a motorcade similar to John Kennedy's fatal caravan of 1963. The narrator says: "When a limousine can parade openly through the streets of Dallas, there's a change that's come over America."

Ford's team hoped the commercial would show that their man had closed down the bad thirteen years that led from JFK's assassination to Vietnam and Watergate. But a secret focus group found the ad too shocking and emotional. The commercial was kept in a vault and never aired.




Jan 30, 1982: Richard Skrenta a 15-year-old high school student at Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, originally writes the first computer virus that went widespread, 400 lines of code, harmless prank boot sector virus infecting floppy disks for Apple DOS 3.3 called "Elk Cloner".



Prank starts 25 years of computer security woes


They don't want you to know that the hippies failed to levitate the Pentagon in 1967 because the military already had its own group of adepts projecting a force field around the building. Proof the Pentagon's sorcery is stronger than yours. War is a state of mind.






Trump nominates Kevin Maxwell Warsh (born April 13, 1970), former steering committee member of the Bilderberg Group. He was Ben Bernanke’s chief liaison to Wall Street during the 2008 financial meltdown. Warsh is married to billionaire Jane Lauder, a granddaughter and heiress of Estée Lauder dynasty.




Iran's nuclear facilities...




So happy I don't live in that frigid Florida.
Wait, those are same temps in my area!


Florida braces for coldest conditions in decades this weekend


Ah, wonderful. Another national emergency on top of the other dozens of national emergencies.


ADDRESSING THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iPyz6Yqwl4


Real life Walter White, new BREAKING BAD season. 2.4 to 288 million is a helluva run. Someone has got to make a movie out of this story. LOL!


John Eric Spiby, 80, was sentenced to 16 years and 6 months in prison on January 29, 2026, for leading a counterfeit drug operation. His son John Colin Spiby, 37, received 9 years. Two others involved got 9 years 9 months and 12 years.